RE: VLAN Troubles

2012-03-06 Thread Jonathon Exley
If it's still not working, try capturing traffic from the Dell switches with Wireshark and then send traffic from the Cisco switch and also capture that. Compare the frames and check that the salient parts line up - e.g. Ethertype. Jonathon -Original Message- From: Peter Ehiwe [mailt

RE: Huawei edge routers..

2012-03-06 Thread Jonathon Exley
I last played with Huawei routers about 10 years ago and it looked very much like IOS. Interesting that they have changed. Also interesting that you don't like Alcatel's TiMOS - I prefer it to IOS, and find it comparable to Junos. I suppose we all have our own tastes... Jonathon -Original

RE: Looking for advice - Auditing zones on a set of name servers

2012-03-22 Thread Jonathon Exley
You could try ValiDNS (http://www.validns.net) which I am told does this sort of thing. Jonathon > -Original Message- > From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstew...@superb.net] > Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 9:54 a.m. > To: NANOG list > Subject: Looking for advice - Auditing zones on a set o

RE: ZOMG: IPv6 a plot to stymie FBI !!!11!ONE!

2012-06-17 Thread Jonathon Exley
APNIC has a web based whois form that is pretty easy to drive. Jonathon > -Original Message- > From: Steven Noble [mailto:sno...@sonn.com] > Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2012 12:05 p.m. > To: goe...@anime.net > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: ZOMG: IPv6 a plot to stymie FBI !!!11!ONE! >

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2012-08-21 Thread Jonathon Exley
> -Original Message- > From: br...@pobox.com [mailto:br...@pobox.com] > > > per-packet load-balancing between default route and null0 could > > accomplish that goal. > > Actually, wouldn't source/dest tuple based balancing be even more > interesting? Or perhaps a combination of both! An

RE: Ethernet OAM BCPs Please are there any yet???

2012-09-26 Thread Jonathon Exley
The ITU recommend the following levels: 5,6,7 = Customer 3,4 = Provider 1,2 = Operator 0= Local segment I don't know if there are any rules of thumb for the CCM interval - faster is more sensitive & unstable, slow is sluggish but stable. The spec allows between 3.33 ms and 10 minutes in 7

RE: Ethernet OAM BCPs Please are there any yet???

2012-09-27 Thread Jonathon Exley
> Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012 7:39 p.m. > To: Jonathon Exley; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: Ethernet OAM BCPs Please are there any yet??? > > Thank you so much Jonathon. > This is exactly what I what I was searching for. > Oh and yes I should have mentioned I'd like to

RE: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Jonathon Exley
RIP is useful as an edge protocol where there is a single access - less system overhead than OSPF. The service provider and the customer can redistribute the routes into whatever routing protocol they use in their own networks. Jonathon -Original Message- From: Jesse Loggins [mailto:jl

RE: RIP Justification

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathon Exley
It also scales better from the SP point of view. If you have 1000 L3VPN services on your PE node using OSPF to the customer that would require a lot of memory for the multiple LSDBs and a lot of CPU for the SPF calculations. BGP is nicer but the reality is that many enterprises don't have the kno

RE: Ethernet performance tests

2010-10-27 Thread Jonathon Exley
For comissioning testing, you can use a hardware packet generator to send packets to an Ethernet demarcation with a MAC-swap loopback, and analyse the returned traffic. For ongoing performance monitoring, having Y.1731 capable CPE is highly desirable. Jonathon. -Original Message- Fro

RE: Ethernet performance tests

2010-10-28 Thread Jonathon Exley
How smooth is the Ixchariot data stream? When Chariot was a NetIQ product it seemed to generate regular spikes as the algorithm tried to correct the total throughput over a time interval. It's not a problem for slow data rates but when testing near the limit of a circuit's capacity the spikes co

RE: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-07 Thread Jonathon Exley
This has probably been said before, but it makes me uncomfortable to think of everybody in the world being given /48 subnets by default. All of a sudden that wide expanse of 2^128 IP addresses shrinks to 2^48 sites. Sure that's still 65535 times more than 2^32 IPv4 addresses, but wouldn't it be

RE: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-08 Thread Jonathon Exley
: Tuesday, 9 August 2011 8:26 a.m. To: Jonathon Exley Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 end user addressing [snip] P.S. Jonathon: If anything in your email was confidential, too bad. You posted it to a public list. Silly notice at the bottom to that effect removed. This email and attachments

RE: flow generating tool

2011-09-26 Thread Jonathon Exley
The venerable mgen (http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/mgen/) is another good option, provided you don't want lots of bandwidth. It has some flexibility in scripting the flows it creates. Jonathon -Original Message- From: Jason Leschnik [mailto:lesch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 26 Septemb

RE: flow generating tool

2011-09-26 Thread Jonathon Exley
The test plan you use depends upon what you want to test - raw pps throughput, route convergence time, qos performance, etc. We use Exfo (http://www.exfo.com) testers working to a mac-swap loopback for commissioning testing of Ethernet access circuits, looking at the usual loss/throughput/latenc

RE: OpenSource IPTV and VoD Solution

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathon Exley
Maybe LIMBOS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/limbos/ ) would work for you? It seems to be instructions for DVB-H reception on Linux and using VLC to relay to the Darwin Streaming Server. Looks like you just can't get away from VLC. Jonathon -Original Message- From: Tayeb Meftah [mailt

Network device command line interfaces

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathon Exley
Does anyone else despair at the CLIs produced by networking vendors? Real routers use a CLI that is command based, like IOS, TiMOS or Junos. These interfaces work well over low bandwidth connections (unlike web interfaces), can work with config backup systems like RANCID, have a (mostly) consiste

Re: Network device command line interfaces

2011-11-24 Thread Jonathon Exley
Try explaining the difference between the blinky lights on a 3750 and the > netgear switch to a CFO who has little tech background. > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > >> >> On Nov 24, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Jonathon Exley wrote: >> >>> I

RE: Network device command line interfaces

2011-11-24 Thread Jonathon Exley
of such a thing? Jonathon. From: Keegan Holley [mailto:keegan.hol...@sungard.com] Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 4:12 p.m. To: Jonathon Exley Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Network device command line interfaces I may have a different opinion here, but I not sure I'd call any CLI easy to work

Re: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathon Exley
I have done QoS testing using Endace DAG cards - they can do capture as well as traffic generation. See http://www.endace.com/dag-8.1sx.html Jonathon This email and attachments: are confidential; may be protected by privilege and copyright; if received in error may not be used, copied, or kept

Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathon Exley
In terms of FOSS routing platforms, I think Vyatta has a better user interface than Mikrotik. IMHO if the CLI is awkward then there a higher risk of misconfiguration. I haven't used either enough to comment about stability. Jonathon. This email and attachments: are confidential; may be protected